The piece is a planar sculpture depicting the asteroid (16) Psyche. Each plane is made from tightly wrapped white yarn. The sculpture is lit from the inside. It is oriented so that the two craters of the asteroid are prominently featured on the bottom of the sculpture.
The piece is a planar sculpture depicting the asteroid (16) Psyche. Each plane is made from tightly wrapped white yarn. The sculpture is lit from the inside. It is oriented so that the two craters of the asteroid are prominently featured on the bottom of the sculpture.
The piece is a planar sculpture depicting the asteroid (16) Psyche. Each plane is made from tightly wrapped white yarn. The sculpture is lit from the inside. It is oriented so that the two craters of the asteroid are prominently featured on the bottom of the sculpture.
The piece is a planar sculpture depicting the asteroid (16) Psyche. Each plane is made from tightly wrapped white yarn. The sculpture is lit from the inside. It is oriented so that the two craters of the asteroid are prominently featured on the bottom of the sculpture.

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Light Curves

Levi Keatts

June 23, 2020

Major: Art Foundation (intended Painting/Mathematics double major)

Genre/Medium: wire and yarn

About the work: My fourth project for Psyche Inspired is a yarn sculpture of the asteroid (16) Psyche. It was inspired by a paper called “Radar Observations and Shape Model of Asteroid (16) Psyche.” In this paper, scientist spoke about how they used the “inversion of light-curves” to develop a topographical map of (16) Psyche. The sculpture is meant to be an artistic interpretation of this.

Date Added: 06-22-2020
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Levi Keatts - Psyche Inspired

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